Usability
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If you have ever noticed a little image in the address bar or in the favorites/bookmark menu of your browser while you are surfing websites or bookmarking pages, you have seen an example of favicons in action. Having a favicon built into your site allows you to further brand and promote your site.
Where favicons […]
5 Web Page Size Tools
Knowing the size of your pages as well as the size of the page elements (i.e. images, code, etc.) is an important aspect in gaining and retaining visitors to your site. All of your useful content and information that you provide will be for nothing if it takes forever for your site to load. […]
Footer Study: A look at 72 popular websites
While compiling the information and observations for the Navigation Study: A look at 72 popular websites post, I also kept notes and observations on the footer elements of some of the most popular sites. After all, these are the sites that have spent millions of dollars and countless hours on visitor interface and usability. […]
Navigation Study: A look at 72 popular websites
A while back I wrote a post on some of the most popular places on where to put your site’s navigation. After writing that post, curiosity got me thinking how the big players on the web designed their pages.
After collecting and compiling the information from 72 (just a random number that seemed like a […]
Creating Printer-Friendly Pages
In addition to being a good feature from a usability standpoint, encouraging and enabling easy-to-print pages from your blog or site is a great marketing tool. If someone is interested enough to want to print your content, you should remove the obstacles in their way and makes your pages as easy as possible to […]
11 Robots.txt Generators & Validators
If you would like to exclude certain pages or sections of your site, the easiest and most effective way to do this is by using a “robots.txt” file. At first it seems simple enough to create and upload one of these files to your website, if you aren’t careful you can accidentally block search […]
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